tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post4781420476957677051..comments2017-12-13T12:52:17.178-05:00Comments on In the Middle: A Short Ode to the ConcordanceJeffrey Cohenhttps://plus.google.com/110433684739546897626noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-70179236608739845832009-06-13T09:50:10.470-04:002009-06-13T09:50:10.470-04:00Que es inmortal
Although I tend to think it is pr...<i>Que es inmortal</i><br /><br />Although I tend to think it is precisely its mortality that demands we become its students. We keep the ball of this language, this way of thought, aloft a little while longer.<br /><br />Nice post MKH, and thanks for this salutary reminder to me not to turn my nose up at &quot;verb counters,&quot; as I&#39;ve done before. I hope you plan on making your db public.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-47777538640815103052009-06-01T16:01:58.532-04:002009-06-01T16:01:58.532-04:00Thanks for posting this, MK -- and confirming what...Thanks for posting this, MK -- and confirming what a nerd you are. You are in excellent company!!Jeffrey J. Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-66899590345906076932009-06-01T09:27:55.688-04:002009-06-01T09:27:55.688-04:00Glad to hear that.Glad to hear that.kvondhttp://kvond.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-86903067750541266302009-05-31T21:03:22.944-04:002009-05-31T21:03:22.944-04:00kvond: that has always been one of my favorite poe...kvond: that has always been one of my favorite poems by Borges; your translation is wonderful.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-87796857071168613072009-05-31T20:42:08.352-04:002009-05-31T20:42:08.352-04:00This is what Occurs to me...(translation experimen...This is what Occurs to me...(translation experimental, surely needing to be corrected)<br /><br /><b>Composicion Escrita en un Ejemplar de la Gesta de Beowulf</b><br /><br /><i>A veces me pregunto qué razones</i><br />At times I ask myself what reasons<br /><i>Me mueven a estudiar sin esperanza</i><br />Moved me to study without hope<br /><i>De precisíon, mientras mi noche avanza,</i><br />Of precision, as my night advanced,<br /><i>La lengua de los ásperos sajones.</i><br />The tongue of the stony Saxons.<br /><br /><i>Gastada por los años la memoria</i><br />Consumed by the years, memory<br /><i>Deja caer la en vano repetida</i><br />Ungrasps the vainly repeated<br /><i>Palabra y es así como mi vida</i><br />Word, and that is how my life<br /><i>Teje y desteje su cansada historia.</i><br />Weaves and unweaves its tired tale.<br /><br /><i>Será (me digo entonces) que de un modo</i><br />It is (I tell myself), that in a way<br /><i>Secreto y suficiente el alma sabe</i><br />Secret and complete, the soul knows<br /><i>Que es inmortal y que su vasto y grave</i><br />That it’s immortal, and that it’s vast, deep<br /><i>Círculo abarca todo y puede todo.</i><br />Circle can bind all and do all.<br /><br /><i>Más allá de este afán y de este verso</i><br />Beyond this struggle and these words<br /><i>Me aguarda inagotable el universo.</i><br />Awaits me inexhaustable, the universe.kvondhttp://kvond.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-51173166602778078122009-05-31T19:35:38.807-04:002009-05-31T19:35:38.807-04:00Eileen: I would never have known about concordance...Eileen: I would never have known about concordances except for a wonderful professor who insisted I learn to use one my first year of grad school, for the course on <i>Beowulf</i>. Amazing the resources out there. <br /><br />Meg: That is precisely why I wanted to post this. My modernist friends look at me like I&#39;m a little nuts when I talk about collating pronoun usage. But so much of OE is unreadable without the massive work of the crowd of scholars who get in there with spades and turn up all kinds of data that one would never have thought possible. Data that confirms some of the crazy stuff I tend to get into with literature. Which is always simultaneously tremendously exciting and extremely humbling -- we all stand on the shoulders of giants, etc.Mary Kate Hurleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14892991966276345782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-62059759768887742012009-05-31T16:05:56.543-04:002009-05-31T16:05:56.543-04:00I have no patience with people who sneer at the he...I have no patience with people who sneer at the heavy spadework that was the hallmark of 19th-century Anglo-Saxon studies. In grad school there was a fair amount of snark directed at anyone who did that sort of work, because it wasn't Cool. But as you observe, cool work can't be good work without the contributions of our predecessors (or peers) with spades.meghttp://xom.blogs.com/xoomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-14214217908112246282009-05-31T14:06:55.577-04:002009-05-31T14:06:55.577-04:00Mary Kate: thanks for this fantastic post as I [gu...Mary Kate: thanks for this fantastic post as I [gulp! embarrassment!] did not know about these concordances. What a gift, a blessing, etc.!Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.com